While many acknowledge that Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault have redefined our notions of time and history, few recognize the crucial role that "the infinite relation" between seeing and saying (as Foucault put it) plays in their work. Gary Shapiro reveals, for the first time, the full extent of Nietzsche and Foucault's concern with the visual.

Shapiro explores the whole range of Foucault's writings on visual art, including the theory of visual resistance, the concept of the phantasm or simulacrum, and his interrogation of the relation of painting, language, and power in artists from Bosch to Warhol. Shapiro also shows through an excavation of little-known writings that the visual is a major theme in Nietzsche's thought. In addition to explaining the significance of Nietzsche's analysis of Raphael, Dürer, and Claude Lorrain, he examines the philosopher's understanding of the visual dimension of Greek theater and Wagnerian opera and offers a powerful new reading of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Archaeologies of Vision will be a landmark work for all scholars of visual culture as well as for those engaged with continental philosophy.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Gary Shapiro is a professor of philosophy and Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities at the University of Richmond. He is the author of three previous books, including Alcyone: Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise and Women and Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art after Babel.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Illustrations
Preface
References and Abbreviations
Introduction: The Abyss of Vision
1. Iconoclasm and Indoctrination: The Taliban and the Teletubbies
2. Denigrating or Analyzing Vision?
3. Foucault as Illustrator: The Case of Frans Hals
4. Nietzsche's Story of the Eye
5. Realism: Reading from Left to Right
6. Hidden Images: Before the Age of Art
7. Nietzsche and Heidegger on Visual HistoryOne - Between Sun and Cyclops: Nietzsche at the Dresden Gallery
8. Eye Trouble
9. Glances of the Golden Age
10. Deconstructing the Video
11. "Claude Lorraine-like Raptures and Tears"
12. Nietzsche and the Time of the Museum
13. A Tour of the Dresden GalleryTwo - Nietzsche's Laocoön: Crossings of Painting and Poetry14. Aesthetics: Nietzsche contra Lessing15. Modernism and Its Discontents: Nietzsche after Greenberg16. Images, Words, and Music17. The Silence of Saint Cecilia18. The Birth of The Birth of TragedyThree - "This is Not a Christ": Art in The Birth of Tragedy19. Transfiguring the Transfiguration20. Floating and Shining21. Double-Coding the Sistine Madonna22. The Death of (Metaphysical) Art23. The Knight, Death, and the Devil24. Nietzsche and the Little Black Dress: All the Costumes of HistoryFour - übersehen: Architecture and Excess in the Theater of Dionysus25. Optical Illusions26. Aesthetics of Presence27. Double Vision: Seeing like an Athenian28. The Theatrical Dispoitif29. Perspectivism and Cyclops Vision30. Postclassical Framing31. Nietzsche in BayreuthFive - In the Twinkling of an Eye: Zarathustra on the Gaze and the Glance32. The Optics of Value33. The Question of the Augenblick34. The Evil Eye and Its Radiant Other35. Zarathustra's Interpretation of Dreams36. Vertigo37. The Nausea of Vision38. Recurrence as Medusa's Head39. High Noon: Hyphenating the Augen-BlickSix - Foucault's Story of the Eye: Madness, Dreams, Literature40. Painting and Pleasure: What Do Philosophers Dream Of?41. The Difficulty of Silence42. Bataille's Deconstruction of the Eye43. Return of the Phantasm: Dream Vision44. Temptations: Bosch and Other Visionaries45. Fantasia of the Library: The Birth of Literature out of the Spirit of PaintingSeven - Critique of Impure Phenomenology46. Merleau-Ponty's Evasion of Nietzsche: Misreading Malraux47. Cézanne or Velazquez: What Is an Artist?48. The Painter as Phenomenologist49. The Visible and the Invisible50. The Mirror of the Sovereign51. "Enslaved Sovereign, Observed Spectator"Eight - Seeing and Saying: Foucault's Ekphrasis of Las Meninas52. What's in a Name?53. Ekphrasis54. Construction of the "We"55. The Vanishing Subject of VisionNine - Toward an Archaeology of Painting56. Archaeology and Genealogy of the Visible57. From Renaissance Similitude to Postmodern Simulacrum58. Klee, Kardinsy, Magritte59. Archaeology without the Episteme?Ten - Visual Regimes and Visual Resistance: From the Panopticon to Manet's Bar60. Nietzsche and the Theater of Cruelty61. Foucault's Scenarios62. Bentham and Plato as Philosopher-Architects63. Panopticon64. The Visual State65. Shutters and Mirrors: Manet Closes the Panopicon Window66. Wanderers and Shadows67. The Prison of the Gallery and the Force of FlightEleven - Pipe Dreams: Recurrence of the Simulacrum in Klossowski, Deleuze, and Magritte68. Simulacra, or Floating Images69. Diana at Her Bath: Theophany as Vision and Text70. Vicious Circles71. Déjà Vu: Recurrence of the Image, Once More72. Epistemology at the Blackboard73. Resemblance and SimilitudeTwelve - The Phantasm in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction74. Warhol and His Doubles: One Brillo Box or Many?75. Hegelian Themes: On the Comedy of Art and Its Death76. Stupidity and the "Eternal Phantasm"77. Pop without a Patriarch: Deleuze, Difference, and Warhol78. Photogenic Painting: The Frenzy of the Circulating Image79. What Do Photographers Dream of? Duane Michals and the Uses of Pleasure80. RetrospectiveNotesIndex

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While many acknowledge that Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault have redefined our notions of time and history, few recognize the crucial role that "the infinite relation" between seeing and saying (as Foucault put it) plays in their work. Gary Shapiro reveals, for the first time, the full extent of Nietzsche and Foucault's concern with the visual.

Shapiro explores the whole range of Foucault's writings on visual art, including the theory of visual resistance, the concept of the phantasm or simulacrum, and his interrogation of the relation of painting, language, and power in artists from Bosch to Warhol. Shapiro also shows through an excavation of little-known writings that the visual is a major theme in Nietzsche's thought. In addition to explaining the significance of Nietzsche's analysis of Raphael, Dürer, and Claude Lorrain, he examines the philosopher's understanding of the visual dimension of Greek theater and Wagnerian opera and offers a powerful new reading of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Archaeologies of Vision will be a landmark work for all scholars of visual culture as well as for those engaged with continental philosophy.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Gary Shapiro is a professor of philosophy and Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities at the University of Richmond. He is the author of three previous books, including Alcyone: Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise and Women and Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art after Babel.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Illustrations
Preface
References and Abbreviations
Introduction: The Abyss of Vision
1. Iconoclasm and Indoctrination: The Taliban and the Teletubbies
2. Denigrating or Analyzing Vision?
3. Foucault as Illustrator: The Case of Frans Hals
4. Nietzsche's Story of the Eye
5. Realism: Reading from Left to Right
6. Hidden Images: Before the Age of Art
7. Nietzsche and Heidegger on Visual HistoryOne - Between Sun and Cyclops: Nietzsche at the Dresden Gallery
8. Eye Trouble
9. Glances of the Golden Age
10. Deconstructing the Video
11. "Claude Lorraine-like Raptures and Tears"
12. Nietzsche and the Time of the Museum
13. A Tour of the Dresden GalleryTwo - Nietzsche's Laocoön: Crossings of Painting and Poetry14. Aesthetics: Nietzsche contra Lessing15. Modernism and Its Discontents: Nietzsche after Greenberg16. Images, Words, and Music17. The Silence of Saint Cecilia18. The Birth of The Birth of TragedyThree - "This is Not a Christ": Art in The Birth of Tragedy19. Transfiguring the Transfiguration20. Floating and Shining21. Double-Coding the Sistine Madonna22. The Death of (Metaphysical) Art23. The Knight, Death, and the Devil24. Nietzsche and the Little Black Dress: All the Costumes of HistoryFour - übersehen: Architecture and Excess in the Theater of Dionysus25. Optical Illusions26. Aesthetics of Presence27. Double Vision: Seeing like an Athenian28. The Theatrical Dispoitif29. Perspectivism and Cyclops Vision30. Postclassical Framing31. Nietzsche in BayreuthFive - In the Twinkling of an Eye: Zarathustra on the Gaze and the Glance32. The Optics of Value33. The Question of the Augenblick34. The Evil Eye and Its Radiant Other35. Zarathustra's Interpretation of Dreams36. Vertigo37. The Nausea of Vision38. Recurrence as Medusa's Head39. High Noon: Hyphenating the Augen-BlickSix - Foucault's Story of the Eye: Madness, Dreams, Literature40. Painting and Pleasure: What Do Philosophers Dream Of?41. The Difficulty of Silence42. Bataille's Deconstruction of the Eye43. Return of the Phantasm: Dream Vision44. Temptations: Bosch and Other Visionaries45. Fantasia of the Library: The Birth of Literature out of the Spirit of PaintingSeven - Critique of Impure Phenomenology46. Merleau-Ponty's Evasion of Nietzsche: Misreading Malraux47. Cézanne or Velazquez: What Is an Artist?48. The Painter as Phenomenologist49. The Visible and the Invisible50. The Mirror of the Sovereign51. "Enslaved Sovereign, Observed Spectator"Eight - Seeing and Saying: Foucault's Ekphrasis of Las Meninas52. What's in a Name?53. Ekphrasis54. Construction of the "We"55. The Vanishing Subject of VisionNine - Toward an Archaeology of Painting56. Archaeology and Genealogy of the Visible57. From Renaissance Similitude to Postmodern Simulacrum58. Klee, Kardinsy, Magritte59. Archaeology without the Episteme?Ten - Visual Regimes and Visual Resistance: From the Panopticon to Manet's Bar60. Nietzsche and the Theater of Cruelty61. Foucault's Scenarios62. Bentham and Plato as Philosopher-Architects63. Panopticon64. The Visual State65. Shutters and Mirrors: Manet Closes the Panopicon Window66. Wanderers and Shadows67. The Prison of the Gallery and the Force of FlightEleven - Pipe Dreams: Recurrence of the Simulacrum in Klossowski, Deleuze, and Magritte68. Simulacra, or Floating Images69. Diana at Her Bath: Theophany as Vision and Text70. Vicious Circles71. Déjà Vu: Recurrence of the Image, Once More72. Epistemology at the Blackboard73. Resemblance and SimilitudeTwelve - The Phantasm in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction74. Warhol and His Doubles: One Brillo Box or Many?75. Hegelian Themes: On the Comedy of Art and Its Death76. Stupidity and the "Eternal Phantasm"77. Pop without a Patriarch: Deleuze, Difference, and Warhol78. Photogenic Painting: The Frenzy of the Circulating Image79. What Do Photographers Dream of? Duane Michals and the Uses of Pleasure80. RetrospectiveNotesIndex

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